[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 88 (Wednesday, May 24, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2560]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              PROMOTING MENTAL HEALTH FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS

  (Mr. McCORMICK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the legislation efforts that 
we have had recently to define fentanyl as poison and to address a very 
serious problem in the United States where we had 110,000 people die 
last year alone.
  As an emergency medicine physician, to see anywhere from one to five 
overdoses per night, to see four patients come in that I could not 
revive and that are no longer with us is a serious problem.
  I caution everybody in Congress--from my conservative roots and the 
conservative values that made this Nation what it is--not to turn to 
legislation to solve this problem. We need to understand that this is a 
people problem.
  Ultimately, you can spend a trillion dollars overseas, you can fight 
wars, you can secure your border, but until we get our hearts straight, 
we will not solve this very real problem.
  Until we understand that when our children are taught that they are 
supporting murderers and rapists and child traffickers, people who 
would do harm to all of us, then they will stop the incentive of 
creating the demand, and the problem will go away.
  This is a problem of our house but not this House, the house of our 
family.

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